Integration of RadForm in RadPageView

[Fabien]

Dear support team,

  I have written an application with 10 forms and need to manually copy code and ressources from RadForm (debug version) to RadPageViewPage (release) and tweak few lines each time...
  As you will probably agree, it's quite painful and hard to maintain.

  Do you support the integration of normal RadForm in a RadPageView container ?
  Or Do you have other tip for maintaining this, knowing that it is impossible to edit a derivated RadPageViewPage in Visual Studio 2008 ?

  Best regards,
Fabien.

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello Fabien,

I would suggest using a Dock for this, the Dock offers built in support for MDI.

For even more information about using about docking forms and user controls please check out this help article.

Hope this helps, if you have any other questions or comments, please let me know,

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Fabien]

Dear Emanuel,

  It would probably involve more code redesign to block docking behavior and icons support.
  In this case, it is probably better to use Ribbon, isn't it ?

  Regards,
Fabien.

[Emanuel Varga]

Hello again Fabien,

Me, for one i prefer the Dock for such things, but here you have an example on how to add normal forms to pages as controls, i hope this helps:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Telerik.WinControls.UI;

namespace IntergratingFormsInPageView
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private RadPageView radPageView1;
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.Controls.Add(radPageView1 = new RadPageView());
            radPageView1.Size = new Size(this.ClientSize.Width, this.ClientSize.Height - 24);
            radPageView1.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Bottom | AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right;

            var addFormButton = new RadButton();
            addFormButton.Text = "Add Form";
            addFormButton.Click += new EventHandler(addFormButton_Click);
            addFormButton.Dock = DockStyle.Bottom;
            this.Controls.Add(addFormButton);
        }

        void addFormButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var childForm = new ChildForm();
            childForm.TopLevel = false;
            childForm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
            childForm.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None;

            var page = new RadPageViewPage();
            childForm.Parent = page;
            page.Text = "Page " + (radPageView1.Pages.Count + 1).ToString();
            page.Controls.Add(childForm);

            radPageView1.Pages.Add(page);
            childForm.Show();
        }
    }

    public class ChildForm : Form
    {
        public ChildForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.Controls.Add(new RadTextBox());
            var grid = new RadGridView();
            grid.Dock = DockStyle.Bottom;
            this.Controls.Add(grid);
        }

        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components;

        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing && (components != null))
            {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        #region Windows Form Designer generated code

        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
            this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
            this.Text = "Form1";
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

It seems pretty straight forward to me...

Hope this helps, if you have any other questions or comments, please let me know,

Best Regards,
Emanuel Varga

[Ras Ran]

hii i have added a Rad form to RadPagView but when i am trying to close a page i can't access Rad form closing event ...whats the reason behind this ? or else is there any other option ? 

[Dimitar]

Hello Ranees,

You can use the events of RadPageView. For example the PageRemoving event.

I hope this helps. Should you have any other questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Kind regards,

Dimitar

the Telerik team

[Ras Ran]

hiii......i want to close RadPageView page  based on condition...is it possible ??....please check attached picture...in the attached picture you can see a RadButton named Update..in  that condition i want to show a RadMessageBox  by showing "you can't close the current page" white clicking RadPageView Close Button....would you give a solution for this ??

[Dimitar]

Hi,

You can use the following approach for this: 

public RadForm1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    radPageView1.PageRemoving += RadPageView1_PageRemoving;

}

private void RadPageView1_PageRemoving(object sender, RadPageViewCancelEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Page.Text == "radPageViewPage1")
    {
        RadMessageBox.Show("Cannot close this page");
        e.Cancel = true;
    }
}

I hope this helps. Should you have any other questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Dimitar
Progress Telerik

[Ras Ran]

thank you so much Dimitar....its worked perfectly...